fit-staffing-to-budget

name	fit-staffing-to-budget
description	Model a student:teacher ratio into FTE and salary cost and check it against the budget envelope. Reach for this on a staffing question.

Skill: Fit staffing to budget

A staffing ratio set as an aspiration untied to the budget sets the school up to overspend (§3 #3).

Step 1 — Set the target ratio

The student:teacher ratio and current FTE.

Step 2 — Compute teachers and cost

Enrollment ÷ ratio × avg teacher cost via k12_school_administration_calc.py staffing-ratio (§3 #3).

Step 3 — Check the variance

FTE and dollar variance vs current and vs the budget envelope (§3 #3).

Step 4 — Tie to retention

Turnover cost that the ratio decision interacts with (§3 #7).

Output

A staffing-to-budget read with the FTE and dollar variance vs the envelope. Traverse Tree 2 in the decision-trees file.